As a fellow, you will focus on your individual project while benefiting from a dynamic, multidisciplinary community at Harvard University. Only 4 percent of applicants are selected each year. Fellows—women and men—are at the forefront of the arts, journalism, humanities, sciences, and social sciences.

Our student research program enables Harvard undergraduates to work closely with fellows on their projects throughout the year. Students have conducted research on the science of brownies, the economics of the Olympics, international sex trafficking laws, and the discovery of new planets.

Each year, we offer several dissertation completion fellowships to doctoral students in the Harvard Graduate School of Arts and Sciences.

"Like many Radcliffe fellows, I've had many different fellowships and residencies. There's something that's absolutely unique about Radcliffe, which is the breadth of disciplines. You have everything from physics to poetry. The Institute offers a protective cocoon that allows for peace of mind and time that's free of distraction, so that an artist can do focused and concentrated work. It's a wonderful arena in which to really push oneself and one's work."